Animation

Firefox 4 is going to be a very exciting release. Robert O’Callahan details one of the new features, which should help animation, called mozRequestAnimationFrame. First the motivation: In Firefox 4 we’ve added support for two major standards for declarative animation — SVG Animation (aka SMIL) and CSS Transitions. However, I also feel strongly that the Read the rest…

I’ve been doing alot of experimenting with HTML5/CSS3 on the iPhone doing animation, and I’ve been surprised with the low frame rate of animating through Canvas or SVG. If you are trying to do animation, especially 3D, on the iPhone it seems like the name of the game is to it through the GPU, and Read the rest…

Jonas Wagner has ported the Flash 2D physics engine Box2DFlash to JavaScript: In his demo Jonas uses the Canvas tag to map the physics simulations on. Click on it to create explosions: Jonas talks about the approach he used to convert the original library from ActionScript to JavaScript: At first I thought this conversion would Read the rest…

Chris Vanrensburg: “In a similar vein to a recent experiment with animating position, I wanted to see how curves could be applied to animating size changes for an object. To be expected, applying different interpolation curves for the width and height CSS style properties produces some fun effects (to be seen towards the bottom of Read the rest…